When one of my daughters was four years old, she was looking out the front window and shouted in delight, “Daddy! Look! The chocolate truck
A Possible Problem With Dairy English Muffins Chazal (Pesachim 36a) decreed that bread must be pareve, lest we eat dairy bread with meat or meat
Parshat Shelach The well-known story related to us in our haftarah this week, the story of Yehoshua’s spies and the events that took place in
“There shall be one law for you and for the resident stranger; it shall be a law for all time throughout the ages. You and
What does it mean to “see”? In common vernacular, when people say “I see,” they don’t usually mean to say “I see what is right
We are all used to this word as the fifth plague. But it only appears one time in that plague. It has a life of
Rashi, in this week’s parsha, quotes the midrash that it really should have taken the spies double the time to travel the length and width
There are times in life when we make mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes are grievous or even sinful. When we get a chance to make them
Many centuries before the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) studied dreams, their meaning for and impact on the individual, the Sages of the Talmud (Berachot
Reviewing: “Tribal Blueprints: Twelve Brothers and the Destiny of Israel,” by Nechama Price. Maggid Books. 2020. English. Hardcover. 308 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1592645459. With a few
Reviewing: “Tzurba M’Rabanan—Volumes 1-5,” by Benzion Algazi. Doron Podlashuk, Eli Ozarowski, translators. Mizrachi Press. 2019. Paperback. English. 344 pages. One of the challenges of learning
Highlighting themes from: “The Narrow Halakhic Bridge: A Vision of Jewish Law in the Postmodern Age,” by Rabbi Ronen Neuwirth. Urim Publications. 2020. English. Hardcover.
